Wednesday, September 23, 2020

My longest exposure so far

The Andromeda Galaxy M31 was photographed. Total exposure time was 3hours and 32minutes. All together I made 253 pictures taken with setting of 30s and 60s exposure time and different ISO setting.

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6. Camera control with DigiCamControl for exposure time >30s. Raw data converted to DNG and stacking using DeepSkyStacker. Final editing using CS4. 



A forming Sunspot



A sunspot is forwing near the edge of the Sun. Pictures made using ND3.8 filter with and without Solar Continuum filer.

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TAL200K f/8.5


Sunday, September 20, 2020

Halo



Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone 11Some high clouds and a halo around the Sun.

Open Starcluster M52 and Bubble Nebula NGC7635



Open Starcluster M52 and Bubble Nebula NGC7635 with Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6.

Setting ISO4000, 30x60s and darks. Cameracontrol using DigiCamControl. Raw data converted to DNG and stacking with DeepSkyStacker. Final editing using CS4 and DeNoise AI.

Andromeda Galaxy M31




My second session of 60x60s exposure time was done in ISO4000. Now I could combine this with my first session (ISO 2500) using DeepSkyStacker. Final editing was done with CS4 and DeNoise AI.

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6 : first session 60x60s ISO2500, second session 60x60s ISO4000. Camera control by DigiCamControl. Raw data converted to DNG and stacking using DeepSkyStacker.

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Fireworks Galaxy NGC6946

 Fireworks Galaxy or NGC6946 : picture edited using DeNoise AI



Galaxy NGC6946


Galaxy NGC4946 is located in constellation Cepheus and about 25million lightyears away from Earth.




Setting : Nikon D7500 and TAL200K f/8.5, ISO4000, 11x60s. DigiCamControl used to control my camera. Raw data converted to DNG and stacked using DeepSkyStacker. Final editing with CS4.